Vantec has offered some help: their IDE/SATA to USB 3.0 Adatper and its sibling the NexStar eSATA to USB 3.0 adapter. The IDE/SATA adapter will connect to any standard hard drive that uses an IDE(PATA) interface of either the 3.5 or 2.5 laptop variant and also with any SATA drive supporting speeds up to SATA III. It also has a power adapter for getting juice to the drives. Its sibling, the NexStar eSATA to USB 3.0 adapter, does just that. It lets you connect an eSATA drive again with speeds up to SATA III, via USB 3.0."

ASUSTOR AS-204TE NAS Review @ HardwareHeaven.com Today on our test bench we will be taking a look at the AS-204TE model from Asustor. This four bay model is squarely aimed at the home user and in addition to the hardware side we shall also be taking a look at the latest version of ADM (its operating system) which is currently in beta."

The Thecus N2310 NAS device is a great addition to any home network. With the Thecus N2310 you get a level of business class features, but at a consumer friendly price. The N2310 supports two hard drives up to 4TB in size, with configurations for JBOD, RAID 0, or RAID 1. The simplicity of automatic setup through the Thecus Intelligent NAS utility, also means that you don`t have to be a tech genius to set it up. The N2310 features active cooling to ensure your installed drives stay cool, and for connectivity you have a USB 2.0, USB 3.0 port, and Gigabit LAN. The USB ports can be used to back up external hard drives, cameras, or even burn copies of your data from the NAS to DVD. In addition, the Thecus N2310 NAS device comes loaded with Thecus OS 6 so that you can run applications on it for media streaming, photo galleries, BitTorrent, and mobile control."

The OCZ Vector 150 120GB SSD shares most of its traits with the original Vector, including the vaunted Barefoot 3 controller capable of managing blistering performance. The biggest change in the OCZ Vector 150 SSD line comes in its NAND flash, which has been changed out to 19nm Toshiba MLC. While the change does not have a huge performance impact, it does have a great impact on endurance and longevity pushing endurance to 50GB of host writes per day for 5-years./"

I`ve been reviewing products long enough that I`m not easy to impress anymore. That being said, there is little to be disappointed with when it comes to the Crucial M500 960GB SSD. It lives up to and exceeds the performance claims and even though the larger block size may make reading and writing smaller files a bit slower than some of the competition, it still delivers excellent performance across the board."

While SSDs are the best choice in roles that need high speed (mostly boot drives for the home user), many people need large amounts of storage space, and traditional hard drives still give the best value per gigabyte. Four-terabyte drives are the biggest drives available today, and today we will test two of them: the Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB and the Western Digital WD Black 4 TB."

This drive - although labeled similar to the OCZ Vector, is actually a totally different beast as it now features Toshiba NAND memory instead of Micron or Intel NAND. That is one of the changes we`ll see in OCZ drives going forward - they will all likely have Toshiba NAND and Indilinx controllers."

Up until roughly 5 years ago whenever i needed to download large chunks of data from the internet i had to use my HTPC system which naturally consumed a lot less power than my Intel Core i7 systems. Still even that used almost 90W at idle and although compared to my other systems this was nothing having it turned on almost 24/7 was not really good for my wallet. That all changed however when i received my very first NAS server and i haven`t looked back ever since. True NAS Servers can`t do everything a small PC can right from the box but currently these little devices can do most of what a PC can without however taking up the same space while at the same time their electrical requirements are many times less something that concerns many people especially those who use such devices nonstop for long periods of time. For the past two weeks we`ve been putting through rigorous testing yet another NAS Server by our friends over at QNAP and more specifically their latest and quite powerful TurboNAS TS-470. "

Recently Plextor released their latest M6 series of drives and like the last generation of drives they are pushing to explore new market segments. In the case of today`s review that means an M2 drive, on PCIe add-in card which allows us to exceed the limitation of the SATA bus. We have the 128 and 512GB version of the M6e on our test bench so let`s see how they perform."

Today will mark my first ever look into what the Shenzhen, China based company offers to consumers. The E3000s makes use of the LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller that so many other SSDs use, has Intel NAND flash memory, comes in 7mm height for usage in Ultrabooks, and come in a sleek looking enclosure. Read on to know more about the KingSpec brand, and what you can expect from their SSDs."

Beginners Guides: Repairing a Cracked / Broken Notebook LCD ScreenOct 02 | Beginners GuidesRating:A broken or cracked LCD screen makes a laptop utterly useless, good thing
PCSTATS can show you how to replace that busted laptop screen with a minimum of fuss and for less money than a service center charges. PCSTATS will be fixing a cracked LCD screen on a Lenovo T530 ThinkPad notebook, the general procedures outlined here work for any notebook though.